Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur Observers and All Others Interested in the Science of Astronomy, Volum 10J. D. Potter., 1873 |
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Pàgina 3
... attention to the errors of Damoiseau's Tables . It is easy to say compute new ones , but not so easy to do . With respect to the time of disappearance I have probably seen as many of these eclipses as most people , and I take the dis ...
... attention to the errors of Damoiseau's Tables . It is easy to say compute new ones , but not so easy to do . With respect to the time of disappearance I have probably seen as many of these eclipses as most people , and I take the dis ...
Pàgina 12
... attention , principally because it enables me to refer to a question of some interest . In page 277 , I am reported to have said , during the discussion on a paper by Captain Noble , that I had seen the disc of Venus all round at her ...
... attention , principally because it enables me to refer to a question of some interest . In page 277 , I am reported to have said , during the discussion on a paper by Captain Noble , that I had seen the disc of Venus all round at her ...
Pàgina 13
... attention to the fact that " the tail , if there was such an appendage to Encke's Comet , was turned towards the sun , and in right ascension went first . " With the greatest deference to such high authority , I think that view can now ...
... attention to the fact that " the tail , if there was such an appendage to Encke's Comet , was turned towards the sun , and in right ascension went first . " With the greatest deference to such high authority , I think that view can now ...
Pàgina 14
... attention . Doubtless , the better the quality of the telescope , the lower the power required to see a given faint star , and the higher the power the said star would bear . I am , Sir , yours very truly , T. H. BUFFÍAM . Bonner's Road ...
... attention . Doubtless , the better the quality of the telescope , the lower the power required to see a given faint star , and the higher the power the said star would bear . I am , Sir , yours very truly , T. H. BUFFÍAM . Bonner's Road ...
Pàgina 15
... attention of observers , who take an interest in this subject , to a diagram of the late Rev. W. R. Dawes ; also to a letter of Mr. A. P. Holden . In the Register , Vol . 2 , page 301 , there is a diagram from the late Mr. Dawes ...
... attention of observers , who take an interest in this subject , to a diagram of the late Rev. W. R. Dawes ; also to a letter of Mr. A. P. Holden . In the Register , Vol . 2 , page 301 , there is a diagram from the late Mr. Dawes ...
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1st Oc 1st Sh 1st Tr 2nd Ec 2nd Sh 2nd Tr 3rd Oc 3rd Sh 3rd Tr achromatic angle aperture appear April Astronomer Royal Astronomical Register aurora belt bright Capt centre chromosphere Clapton colong colour comet Conjunction of Moon corona correspondents crater dark diameter distance double stars Dunkin earth Editor equatorial faint Greenwich heaven Heliographical Herschel inches instrument John Herschel Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites latitude libration light limb longitude lunar magnitude March Mars Mean Noon Mercury meteors minor planets minutes month motion nebula night noticed objects observations Occultation orbit phenomena photographs position prism Proctor Professor prominences Ranyard Reappearance of ditto referred reflector refractor remarks Royal Astronomical Society Royal Observatory S. W. BURNHAM Saturn seen Selenographical solar eclipse spectroscope spectrum spots sun's disc telescope Thur tint transit transit of Venus Tues Uranus Venus visible zodiacal light zone
Passatges populars
Pàgina 255 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behaviour,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by' heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence...
Pàgina 254 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
Pàgina 254 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Pàgina 156 - Essays on Astronomy. A Series of Papers on Planets and Meteors, the Sun and Sun-surrounding Space, Stars and Star Cloudlets. By RA Proctor, BA With 10 Plates and '24 Woodcuts.
Pàgina 255 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Pàgina 230 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Pàgina 255 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse...
Pàgina 288 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep...
Pàgina 286 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Pàgina 286 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.